Men Quotes

Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!

William Shakespeare

I loved to hit with men on base and with the game on the line.

Willie Stargell

Football is a violent game. We are violent men.

Will Shields

Authority is by nothing so much strengthened and confirmed as by custom; for no man easily distrusts the things which he and all men have been always bred up to.

William Temple

Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive.

Wilbur Wright

Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.

William Allen White

Consistency is the paste jewel that only cheap men cherish.

William Allen White

Yes, threadbare seem his songs, to lettered ken - they were worn threadbare next the hearts of men.

William Watson

Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be, yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.

William Wycherley

America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men.

Woodrow Wilson

The world is not looking for servants, there are plenty of these, but for masters, men who form their purposes and then carry them out, let the consequences be what they may.

Woodrow Wilson

Princeton is no longer a thing for Princeton men to please themselves with. Princeton is a thing with which Princeton men must satisfy the country.

Woodrow Wilson

The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.

Woodrow Wilson

The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.

William Butler Yeats

I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.

William Butler Yeats

I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'

William Butler Yeats

Men create the gods in their own image.

Xenophanes

If cattle and horses, or lions, had hands, or were able to draw with their feet and produce the works which men do, horses would draw the forms of gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they would make the gods' bodies the same shape as their ...

Xenophanes

There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men.

Xun Zi

Our children think our world will end. It's a tragic thing. Adults don't think that. They don't see that we are eating the planet. But we are. If you take all the biomass of vertebrates on the planet, 98% are men and their domestic animals. All the w...

Yann Arthus-Bertrand

I don't think men like a bad girl. Well, I haven't had a date in a year so I'm obviously doing something wrong. It's not that my standards are too high, I haven't even been asked out in a year. I have no standards, anyone, please!

Yasmine Bleeth